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sleeved jackets all well made and of good material are among 

 the garments (Fig. 15). 



To describe even a tithe of the types in bronze would require 

 more space than we may use. Of weapons we may mention 



swords and daggers, beautiful in form 

 and decoration, lance and spear heads, 

 battle-axes ; of tools and implements, 

 hatchets, axes, knives, razors (so 

 called) of quaint shape and frequently 

 with engraved patterns on the blade 

 (Fig. 16) ; of ornaments, every con- 

 ceivable variety of rings for fingers, 

 arms, neck, and head. The ornaments 

 may be either of gold or bronze. Some 

 of the neck or head bands are elabo- 

 rately twisted (Fig. 17) ; finger and 

 arm rings may be simple rings or may 

 be spirals ; fibulae or safety pins are 

 worked out in many curious and at- 

 tractive patterns. Vessels, too, of 

 gold or bronze have been found, and 

 these, reproduced by modern work- 

 men, delighted many visitors to the 

 Exposition in 1893 (Fig. 18). 



Among the masterpieces of the 

 bronze- worker which have come from that olden time to us are 

 great bronze battle-horns, called by the Danes lur. These are 

 truly gigantic. Twenty-three specimens have been found in Den- 

 mark, all in peat bogs, and most of them in pairs (Fig. 19). For 

 years a dozen of these lurs hung in the museum silent. Recently 

 Dr. A. Hammerich secured permission to study them as musical 

 instruments and to test them. Finally, these were played upon 



Fig. 19. Bronze Battle Horn. 



Fig. 20. Minim ire Boat of Gold. 



before a large and enthusiastic audience, the king himself being 

 I in 'sci it. Only a few times since have these old horns been 

 sounded, but on one of these occasions we had the good fortune 

 to be present. Two players from the opera were the performers; 

 the court of the museum was filled with hearers. Wonderful, is 



